Assassin's Creed Shadows is the 2nd Best-Selling Game in the US in 2025 Year-to-Date - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 April 2025 / 13,883 Views
Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Piscatella has revealed Assassin's Creed Shadows has been the best-selling game in the US in its first three weeks and is the second best-selling game of 2025 behind only Monster Hunter: Wilds.
"Here's a fun one... Assassin's Creed Shadows has been the best-selling video game in the US for each of its first 3 weeks in market, according to Circana's Retail Tracking Service (dollar sales, latest data through April 5th)," said Piscatella.
"Currently ranks #2 year-to-date trailing only Monster Hunter: Wilds."
Assassin's Creed Shadows released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft Store, and Amazon Luna on March 20.
Here's a fun one... Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling video game in the US for each of its first 3 weeks in market, according to Circana's Retail Tracking Service (dollar sales, latest data through April 5th).
Currently ranks #2 year-to-date trailing only Monster Hunter: Wilds.
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Bluesky.
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Great job on that boycott guys... you really showed them lol
The funny thing is the grifters made their ad revenue which was always the intended goal.
but.. but.. the steam concurrent players are low.. ☝🤓
What's funny is they will still try and use steam concurrent players as an indicator for the next "controversial" game lol
LOL hopefully this will start to put an end to the online thinking that Steam CCU is the one all be all on whether a game is successful or not
Although I've always enjoyed game's successes on the Steam concurrent users, I've never thought of it as indication of success of single-player games. People play single-player games on their own time, and so it doesn't really matter how many are online/Steam connected at any given moment. Assassin's Creed I think is still a bigger game on consoles as well.
Now, when it comes to live-service, online-only games, then yes if your Steam concurrent users is like never above 5,000 or 10,000 users or whatever, your game is probably not going to survive long.
I've just created a bait thread on reddit to see how many guys are still in denial. Many of them stated Steam is the only reliable source lol
The most interesting part of this information is that it was number 1 for all 3 weeks, it didn't even have a hard drop off. Word of mouth must be pretty positive.
Been a pretty average year up to this point as far as game releases are concerned...
Ubisoft needed the success to stay afloat.
not sure if they “needed the success to stay afloat,” though it did grant them a great deal of leveraging power in AC IP value when acquired by Tencent (or whoever ends up fully acquiring Ubi).
Well deserved! Games is amazing.
Whilst Q1 2025 was not a very strong Q1 (compared to other years) it is still great news for Ubisoft. At the end of the day everyone loses if Ubisoft goes bankrupt or fully gets taken over by Tencent.
It's their fault in the first place releasing mediocre trash
I am not saying they didn't deserve losing a lot of money, but I am not hoping Ubisoft becomes yet another Chinese asset
Chinese asset??
If Tencent buys out Ubisoft that's basically what they become.
Second only to MHWilds…those are impressive figures for AC!
Mediocre at best and it won't last long in that 2nd spot lol,
Ubisoft been mid for a long time this was their last resort and now they're gonna pawn their i.p to china lol
I see people celebrating but what does this mean exactly? How big was the game in third place?
Split fiction and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 sold 2m(in one week, and 2 weeks) so probably one of them unless I'm forgetting something
